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No Model.)

K. K. SOLBERG, Decd.

A. SOLBERG, Administratrix. POUR HORSE EVENER.

' No. 437,730. Patented 001;.v 7, 1890.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

KNUDT K. SOLBERG, OF OLARKFIELD, MINNESOTA; AASIL SOLBERG ADMIN- ISTRATRIX OF SAID KNUDT K. SOLBERG, DECEASED.

FOUR-HORSE EVEN ER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N0. 437,730, dated October 7, 1890.

Application filed August 19, 1889. Serial No, 321,439. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: strap or bar E connects the pivot or bolt of Be it known that I, KNUDT K. SOLBERG, evener O to the pivot or bolt of evenerB, and

who have declared my intention to become a clip 1) confines the draw-barbetween it and a citizen of the United States of America, evener B and strap E. An anti-friction roller and who formerly was a subject of the King may be provided at this point for the drawof Norway and Sweden, now residing at bar to work upon. Olarkfield, in the town of Friendship, in the One horse will be hitched to the left of the county of Yellow Medicine, State of Minnetongue and three to the right, all abreast. sota, have invented a new and useful Evener Two horses will pull upon hammer-strap d 10 for Two Spans of Horses Abreast, ofwhich the and two upon hammer-strap b; but this arfollowing is a specification. rangemeut'inay be varied at pleasure.

My invention relates to devices for attach- By the arrangement of eveners and con ing power to machinery and vehicles which nections shown and the proper adj ustment of are to be propelled over the ground, and has bars 152 13 upon the evener O the machine or I 5 for its object the provision of a simple and vehicle can be drawn with precision in a right 6 5 effective device of this character, generally line, completely equalizing the draft. known as a four-horse power. Having thus described my invention, what The following detailed description willfully I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patindicate the nature, construction, and purcut, is

20 pose of my said invention. 1. In a device of the kind described, the

The accompanying drawing illustrates my combination of the eveners set with their said invention, the figure beinga perspective long arms in opposite directions over the View of the evener arranged upon a tongue. tongue, and having a hammer-strap on the Similar letters of reference indicate correlong arm'of the main evener and a draw-bar 25 spending parts. connected to the long arm of the second A is the tongue of the machine or vehicle evener, and curved to present its hammerto be drawn, and a is atongue-block screwed strap above the tongue, as set forth. or formed upon the rear end of the tongue. 2. The combination of the eveners B and O,

B is the main evener, which is bolted upon bars 13' B, connecting the short arm of evener 30 the tongue in front of the block, the long arm O to the long arm of evener B, jointed bars extending to the right of the tongue and be- B B and B connecting arm of evener Oto ing provided with a hammer-strap 1). short arm of evener B, and the draw-bar D, Upon the tongue-block is bolted a second bolted to the joint of bars 13*, B and B said evener 0, whose long arm extendsto the left draw-bar having a curved portion and abody 5 and is provided with a series of openings cc. with a hammer-strap extending over the Bars B B connect the short end of the evener tongue, as set forth. O to the mid-length of the long arm of evener 3. The combination of the evener B C, B, as shown, and B B and B connect the bolted to the tongue, at bar or strap E, conshort arm of the main evener B to the long neeting their belts, jointed bars 13 B 0011- 4o arm of the evener C, the bars B B being necting one endof the eveners, acurveddraw- 9o adjustable in the holes 0 c in the inner arm 0. bar attached to the joint of said bars and ex- Bars B B are bolted or pivoted to bar B at tending out over the tongue, a clip (1', placed b about mid-distance between the main and over the draw-bar on evenerB, and bars B B, secondary eveners. At the joint 19 affords connecting the other end of the eveners, as 5 means for attaching a draw-bar D, having the set forth.

end next to the joint curved, as shown,which V 7 throws the body of the draw-bar over the KNUDP SOLBERG' tongue. The draw-bar rests over the evener Witnesses: B and is provided with a hammer-strap d, to OLE. S. BERG, 50 which a double or single tree is secured. A THEo. W. KEITHLEY. 

